Archive for 2008

Week 8

So, apparently I got a little ahead of myself when counting my weeks. Everything is still so up in the air when it comes to my due date, that I am sure I

Week 7

By Eva On 7:42 PM with 1 Comments

Well, I made it through the day today without a nap, but I'm fading quickly. Still, that's pretty good, considering how last week was going. I felt a lot better nauseous wise today.

Week 6

By Eva On 8:23 PM with 0 Comments

So, I am supposedly six weeks pregnant, according to the date of my last cycle. I don't think I am truly that far along, but I guess we'll find out as time goes

Lucia's Reaction

By Eva On 3:51 PM with 0 Comments

So, after having called all my side of the family to let them know of our newly expected bambino, it was time to tell Lucia and Michael. I decided to paint "I'm going

Yes, that IS a positive pregnancy test

By Eva On 3:45 PM with 2 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Eva On 11:24 AM with 0 Comments

This Thanksgiving we were able to celebrate with the Sellers and Farinas. My older sister Erin and her family came over and Lucia, Michael, and our new addition to the family, Justin, joined

Experiences as Emmaline's Mother

By Eva On 8:26 PM with 0 Comments

For those of you who do not know my daughter intimately, she is a wonderful little girl, full of spunk and spirit, a joy to be around, is a great source of entertainment,

Ahhhhh....Motherhood

By Eva On 10:44 AM with 1 Comments

This morning I got dressed only to realize that Emmaline had leaked through her diaper onto my last pair of clean pants. "Oh well, they don't stink; I'll just have to do laundry

Yea!!! Photos!!!!

By Eva On 2:51 PM with 3 Comments

Here are the photos of Emmaline celebrating her first year and Christmas. I went to a place called Portrait Innovations, and, since I had been warned of what I was walking into, it

Pictures

By Eva On 9:21 AM with 0 Comments

I'm going to get photos of Emmaline taken today!!! Yea!!! Maybe I'll have some neat pictures to post soon. Sorry I've been so bad about writing lately. It's been getting harder and harder

More Landscaping

By Eva On 2:04 PM with 1 Comments

A few weekends ago David was possessed by a tree spirit. It told him it wanted to be moved. I tried my best to excorsize the thing, but to no avail. (We all

Good-bye Summertime

By Eva On 8:53 AM with 0 Comments

In celebration and in mourning of summertime's passing, here are some pictures of Emmaline in her summertime dresses! She's so cute!

Aaaarrrggghhhh!!!Curse DST, and curse my lack of organization!! Curse being a first-time mother!!! There are so many little details that are so easy to overlook when trying your best to scramble through this

Emmaline crawling

By Eva On 1:36 PM with 5 Comments

My Mom wanted to see how Emmaline crawls, so here is a video!

South Greenville County Fair

By Eva On 2:38 PM with 0 Comments

This is the only picture I managed to take while we were at the fair this past Saturday morning. There were a lot of things to watch and see, I just didn't think

Da da, da, da!

By Eva On 2:35 PM with 0 Comments

Here is a picture of my first ever finished dress that I sewed myself!! Yea! The dress had actually been done for a couple of months now, but I had one tiny bit

Land Envy

By Eva On 10:15 AM with 0 Comments

There is a horse pasture that butts up against the back of our property. Every once in a while I go back to there fence and drool while looking at the horses and

David the Mechanic

By Eva On 9:19 PM with 2 Comments

My brakes have needed replacing for a while now. A LONG while. They have gotten so bad that I refused to drive my van anywhere, nor let anyone else drive. So, David sat

Picnics in the Park

By Eva On 9:13 PM with 2 Comments

We drive into Greenville almost every Sunday to attend our church. I have always thought it a shame we don't take advantage of already being in the city and go to Falls Park

Roses

By Eva On 9:02 PM with 1 Comments

So, after finally getting my roses planted they pretty much bounced back immediately. My hybrid tea roses have produced lusciously fragrant blooms, and my shrub rose has had copious amounts of its small

Chickens

By Eva On 8:05 PM with 4 Comments

OK, so I must be totally crazy!I don't know from whence this impulse has come, but suddenly I have a laughable desire to raise some chickens. I just think it would be so

Tooth Time

By Eva On 8:39 PM with 2 Comments

Emmaline got her second tooth on Saturday. Yea!! It is the tooth next to the one she already has. She is growing up too quickly!!! Emmaline got her second tooth on Saturday. Yea!!

Crazy Hair-Do

By Eva On 4:50 PM with 0 Comments

Emmaline woke up from a nap with this crazy hair-do a couple of days ago, and I could not resist taking pictures. Darn it, ain't she just so cute?!!!

Mom, do you recognize this dress?

By Eva On 4:43 PM with 0 Comments

Table Rock

By Eva On 2:27 PM with 0 Comments

This past Sunday we went to Table Rock State Park here in South Carolina. It is a beautiful park with lovely trails winding up a mountain, through woods and past a refreshing cool

Swing Set

By Eva On 4:30 PM with 0 Comments

David decided to build a swing set for Emmaline this weekend. He had previously hung the swing her Mormor and Morfar had given to her for Christmas up on a tree branch. Unfortunately,

Emmaline's New Form of Entertainment

By Eva On 10:36 AM with 1 Comments

Walking Lessons

By Eva On 11:20 AM with 0 Comments

I had the brilliant idea to put Emmaline's feet on my feet in order to walk her around the house. David was so impressed by my ingeneous thought that he decided to try

Insolence

By Eva On 11:19 AM with 1 Comments

David and I often go to an ice cream parlor in downtown Greenville called Spill the Beans. We started going on Friday nights during the Winter, and while there we would chat with

Gardening

By Eva On 1:40 PM with 2 Comments

OK, so another reason why I haven't posted an update in a while is because I have been tackling the bears that are my outdoor planters. The planter running along side the brick

Family Drama

By Eva On 5:33 PM with 0 Comments

OK, so I haven't posted anything in a while due to a lot of stuff going on. Here's the dish:David's uncle Dino moved up from DeFuniak Springs, FL two weeks ago, along with

All Grown Up

By Eva On 7:27 PM with 2 Comments

Drumroll please..............Emmaline got her first tooth today!!! Well, it's just the top of a tooth barely poking through her gums, but still...it's a tooth!! When I saw it my eyes teared up a

Wedding Mania

By Eva On 10:22 PM with 0 Comments

Here are some pictures from this past week. Elin's wedding went off without a problem! So now we are all married off; poor Rod, he doesn't know what he's gotten himself into...

Pool Party!!

By Eva On 9:09 PM with 2 Comments

Here is Emmaline's first time in a swimming pool. I must warn you before you play this: the video is VERY LOUD!!!

Update

By Eva On 10:10 PM with 2 Comments

Sorry, I just realized that I didn't update information on Emmaline.Monday, May 12, Emmaline saw a pediatrician for her six month well check. She is in the 4 percentile for her weight, weighing

Hair Cut

By Eva On 5:03 PM with 1 Comments

Well, after weeks of Emmaline pulling on my hair incessantly, I decided to get it chopped off!! Here it is. Let me know what you think.

My First Sleeve!!!!

By Eva On 11:57 AM with 0 Comments

I decided to make a dress, and this time I am going to finish it. I started another dress about two years ago. The pattern was a level "difficult", and I am ashamed

My Little Helper

By Eva On 11:17 AM with 1 Comments

Two weeks ago I discovered I had lice. Emmaline decided to help by looking through David's hair for me. Pick those nits!!

Emmaline's High-Tech Toy

By Eva On 10:12 AM with 2 Comments

Emmaline's Discourse

By Eva On 9:28 AM with 0 Comments

Publisher's Warning: You may want to turn your volume down a little before playing. This video may contain high-pitched shrieking

More pictures

By Eva On 10:59 AM with 0 Comments

My mother requested more pictures of Emmaline, so here she is. Most of these are from within the last month.